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Aston Villa are closing in on the signing of a former Chelsea midfielder and are in negotiations to send Donyell Malen to Italy, according to reports. Unai Emery’s side have made one signing so far in the January transfer window, adding 19-year-old winger Alysson from Brazilian side Gremio for around £10million. Aston Villa’s season in F365 Tables 1st in table between November 2 and January 12 (9 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat) 1st in table when conceding first (18 points) 1st in points gained from losing positions (18 points) 12th in big chances created (29) Villa are competing at the…
Image: Stephen Phillips/Unsplash If you’ve been using Gmail as the “one inbox to rule them all,” your digital hub is about to get a lot smaller. Google has confirmed it’s shutting down two major Gmail features that let users manage external email accounts, such as Yahoo, Outlook, or work addresses, from the Gmail web interface. Starting this month, Gmailify and POP3 mail fetching will be retired, forcing many power users to rethink how they manage multiple inboxes. For years, a feature called Gmailify allowed users to link their non-Google accounts to Gmail to get the “Google treatment.” This meant your…
Image: envato/wirestock Microsoft appears set to deepen Copilot’s role in Windows, with File Explorer potentially the next app to receive built-in AI features. An invisible button was spotted in the latest preview build of Windows 11, which appears to be tied to Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot. Users may be able to ask Copilot to find specific documents, photos, or file types, or even direct them to a particular file within a large folder. The button was spotted by Windows tester @phantomofearth, who shared it on microblogging site X. It marks yet another Copilot integration in Windows, a trend that has…
The start of the new year is a great time to get your finances in order, and a good budgeting app can help with that. Instead of laboring over a spreadsheet, you can try one of our favorite budgeting apps for less than usual. Monarch Money is running a sale that gives new users 50 percent off one year of the service, bringing the final cost down to just $50. Just use the code NEWYEAR2026 at checkout to get the discount.Monarch Money makes for a capable and detailed budgeting companion. You can use the service via apps for iOS, Android,…
Two factors have reportedly contributed to Manchester United opting to favour Michael Carrick over Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for the interim manager’s role. Following the exit of former head coach Ruben Amorim, it quickly emerged that Man Utd were looking to appoint an interim manager until the summer, at which point they will bring in a long-term successor to oversee a substantial rebuild. In the short term, it has been heavily reported over the past week that the Red Devils are favouring Carrick and Solskjaer for the interim role, with the two managers having meetings with club chiefs towards the end…
MG took second place in December, behind only VW – so why aren’t European rivals pushing back? In December, almost one in five new cars registered in the UK came from Chinese brands. For professional or armchair industry watchers, that is a staggering statistic. Never have we seen disruption on this scale. The Japanese, the Koreans and even Tesla took years to gain a significant toehold here, and the Chinese have blown right past them in terms of share in an eye-opening 12 months. The total Chinese share for 2025 was 9.7%, but last month’s 18.2% share was the culmination of phenomenal growth…
To comply with Australia’s under-16 social media ban, Meta said on Medium that it has shut down nearly 550,00 accounts. That number includes 330,000 Instagram, 173,000 Facebook and 40,000 Threads accounts deemed to belong to children. “Ongoing compliance with the law will be a multi-layered process that we will continue to refine, though our concerns about determining age online without an industry standard remain,” the company wrote.Australia’s minimum age social media ban, the first of its kind in the world for a democracy, went into effect on December 10. The ten platforms affected, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, Reddit…
After Antoine Semenyo, Manchester City’s latest ‘hijack’ on Manchester United leaves INEOS with the lesser of two £100m signings… Man Utd have surely got sick of their noisy neighbours in the years following Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement. Over the past 13 years, Man City have dominated this rivalry as they usually beat Man Utd in matches, have lifted a lot more silverware and have also pipped the Red Devils to numerous signings. There has been recent evidence of Man City’s advantage over Man Utd in the transfer market, with Pep Guardiola’s side winning a straight shootout between the two sides…
Meta has appointed Dina Powell McCormick, a banking executive and former Republican White House official, as its new president and vice-chairman. The company said McCormick will help guide its overall strategy and execution as a part of the management team.“Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her uniquely suited to help Meta manage this next phase of growth as the company’s president and vice chairman,” said Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.McCormick was a partner at Goldman Sachs and ran its Global Sovereign investment banking business. She was most…
Anti-government protests have continued in Iran for the 13th day in a row.The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by the collapse of the Iranian currency.BBC diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley explains what’s behind the protests.More on this story.